Trump Group Health Plan Appeal Draws More Regulators Into Fray

The Mississippi Insurance Department is the latest state regulator to defend the Trump Administration’s rule on association health plans.

The MID Aug. 1 announced its plans to join a brief praising the rule submitted by insurance regulators in Oklahoma and Montana. Like those states, Mississippi is a place where “small businesses predominate,” which makes it “uniquely effected” by the March decision striking down the association health plan rule.

The rule in question allows small businesses and self-employed workers to band together to offer health plans that are less expensive—and less robust—than plans governed by the Affordable Care Act. The Department ...